Quotes About Creativity

Quit using your creative power to formulate questions. You can just as easily—more easily— use it to formulate answers.

You are not here to duplicate and replicate. You are here to initiate.

si esperas librarte del miedo hay algunas cosas que debes comprender, y comprender plenamente. La mente es muy poderosa y jamás pierde su fuerza creativa. Nunca duerme. Está creando continuamente. Es difícil reconocer la oleada de poder que resulta de la combinación de pensamiento y creencia, la cual puede literalmente mover montañas […] No hay pensamientos fútiles. Todo pensamiento produce forma en algún nivel.

The key to solving the problem is interaction design before programming.

I've never known a storyteller who was unhappy when telling stories.

And since he's written 126 novels and counting, I think that we can safely say Mr. Foster is one hell of an entertainer.

Alan Dean Foster

On the other hand, Andrea had decided last month, on the occasion of her twelfth birthday and for no discernible reason (at least, none that an adult could discern), that from then on her given name would be Fitzwinkle. And then

At Shimer we paid no attention to disciplinary boundaries; we blithely followed problems wherever they led. For better or for worse, I've never been able to shake this approach.

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work, rather teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean. Antoine de Saint-Exupery A

I should have written books instead of reading them.

They have been trapped by their own inventiveness and audacity. And they must pay with their lives.

T]he truth is I write by ear, always with difficulty and seldom with any exact notion of what is taking place under the hood.

It is not easily summoned. It does not follow the clock. It cannot be rushed. It withers and fades under external schedules and noise and assignments. Rather, it lollygags along on its own; it sprawls in the sun, taking its own time. Divergent thinking is associated with play, creativity, and curiosity.

I would argue, however, that in most and perhaps all forms of creative activity, an unencumbered, unregimented, inward-looking mind is required at certain points—a mind that has unplugged from the wired world.

They draw strength from being alone while they create or explore new worlds. They need that aloneness. They have developed the habit of mind to accept and seek out that aloneness. Sometimes, they must push back against their society to get what they need.

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate — unlike most films.

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

It's not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn't be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.